Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "The DBMS_SCHEDULER package is available to the public."

A block of code will be set as follows:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE SNAP as
begin
null;
insert into session_log select * from v$session where sid = (select sid from v$mystat where rownum = 1);
insert into session_stat_log select * from v$mystat;
end SNAP;

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items will be shown in bold:

!/bin/sh
# set this if you change your Agent home
EXECUTION_AGENT_HOME="/data/app/oracle/product/schagent/11.1.0.6"
# set this to use a different data directory for the Agent
# EXECUTION_AGENT_DATA="" 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

ps –ef|grep ora_cjq0_${ORACLE_SID} 

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in our text like this: "For 10g, Resource Manager is on the Administration tab.".